Back for the Finale: Come back regenerated and just as ready to destroy the demigods as ever in The Blood of Olympus. Of course, now that Reyna and Nico manage to unite the warring camps and cure the gods' schizophrenia, they are disposed of fairly easily.

Eviler Than Thou: The gods and Titans are not saints and it is sometimes hard to see a difference between them. However, everyone agrees the giants are worse than both. Being children of the Greek version of Hell it is to be expected.

Final Boss: In the first three books, quests to defeat the giants drive much of the plot — Porphyrion for the first, Alyconeus for the second, and Enceladus for the third. While not an official quest, Hazel's battle with Clytius fulfills this role for the fourth. And, of course, the fifth book deals with all of them.

Implacable Man: Their primary strength. They lack the vast magic possessed by the gods, but are designed to keep coming no matter what thanks to only being able to be killed by a god and demigod working together.

Our Giants Are Bigger: The average giant or giant-sized monsters are around 10-12 feet tall. These giants are around 20 feet or more.

Pride: A flaw shared by all of them and according to Nemesis they have more pride than the Olympians or Titans which is saying something. Each one thinks they are invincible in battle and can surely defeat the Olympians despite having lost before and individual giants being defeated by individual demigods. This causes them to severely underestimate their enemies leading to one humiliating defeat after another.

Damasen

The Giant counterpart to Ares. As Ares is warlike and bloodthirsty, Damasen is peace-loving and gentle. This put him at odds with the rest of his family, who exiled him in Tartarus. By the time our heroes encounter him, he has become bitter, but they find ways around that.

Arch-Enemy: He was designed to be one to Ares, but this backfired because, by being the opposite of a violent war god, Damasen is by default a pacifist without desire to actually fight.

The Beastmaster: He tames and rides the Drakon at the end of the fourth book. It certainly wasn't on good terms with him before, so it's likely he was exerting some kind of magical control over it... or it might have just been as eager to break their endless cycle of fighting as Damasen was.

Big Damn Heroes: Appears during the fight with Tartarus to help Bob hold him off.

Cynicism Catalyst: Inverted. Seeing the formerly brutal Iapetus rebel against Gaea convinced him that he, too, could change his fate.

You Shall Not Pass!: He does this against Tartarus, allowing Percy and Annabeth to escape through the Doors of Death.

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Cyclopes

General

A cyclops (plural cyclopes) is a one eyed giant. The first ones were born from Gaea and Ouranos, though the majority of them are children of Poseidon. Many cyclopes work for the gods, either by being in their army or the forges of Hephaestus. The rest prefer to prey on wandering Demigods.

Beware the Silly Ones: Their stupidity can often end up being pretty funny, but they're still dangerous, man-eating monsters.

The infamous cyclops that was blinded by Odysseus from The Odyssey. At some point he acquired the Golden Fleece, which attracted numerous satyrs to his Island and their demise. The heroes Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Clarisse eventually went on a quest to steal the fleece from Polyphemus to save Thalia's Tree and all of Camp Half-Blood.

Blind Mistake: Mistakes Grover for a female cyclops and tries to marry him.

Evil Cripple: Tricks numerous satyrs into coming to his Island to eat them and later on tries to eat the heroes of the story. He also tries to force Clarisse into marrying him. He also takes abuses the mercy Percy gave him.

The youngest of the gorgon sisters. She was once a beautiful priestess of Athena, but was seduced by Poseidon in Athena's temple as payback for turning Coronis into a raven. Enraged by the desecration of her temple cursed Medusa, and her sisters for trying to hide it. She actually seems to have some sort of affection for Poseidon though even after being cursed as seen with her being kind to Percy, even though she still attempted to turn him into a statue so she can keep him forever. She is the mother of both Pegasus and Chrysaor.

Euryale: "Heroes! They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'Why can't you turn people to stone? Your sister can turn people to stone.' Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, boy (Percy)! That was Medusa's curse alone. She was the most hideous one in the family. She got all the luck!"

Woman Scorned: In the film, planning to kill Percy just to spite Poseidon.

Automatons

General

Technically not really monsters, but robots only more developed (likely due to magic). Despite this they are often treated as monsters due to how dangerous they can become if they are broken or activated incorrectly. Not to mention many were built for combat. They can also be used as vessels for souls and other bodiless spirits, such as Daedalus and Eidolons have shown. Many were built by Hephaestus.

Annoying Arrows: Arrows rarely if ever affect them since they're made out of metal.

Clockwork Creature: Those described in more detailed are described as such, possible meaning that they all are.

Steampunk: In combination with Clockwork Creatures above, though instead of a Victorian flavor it's usually Greek or Roman if not the society it was built in.

Empousai

General

Formed from animal, bronze and ghosts with the use of dark magic. They feed on the blood of young men and they posses flaming hair, white skin, red eyes, fangs, one prosthetic bronze leg and one donkey leg. They claim to be the basis for the vampire legend.

One of many empousai that were following Kelli in Tartarus to get to the Doors Of Death in order to get back to the mortal world. She was eventually killed by Kelli when she tried to take control of their group after finding out that Hecate sided with the Olympians.

The Older Immortal: She refers to Kelli as "young one", despite Kelli being at least a thousand years old.

Undying Loyalty: To Hecate; she refuses to remain on the Giants' side when she finds out Hecate is siding with Olympus, and fights Kelli to the death over this.

Shadow Walker: Called shadow travel. They can end up tired with over exertion and will need to rest afterwards.

Typhon

A child of Gaia and Tartarus. He was created to avenge the defeat of the Titans, but was defeated and imprisoned in Tartarus. Released in modern times by Percy on accident. He once again tries to destroy the gods and serves as a distraction for Kronos.

The Dreaded: He's feared by the Olympians more than any other threat, even Kronos.

Eldritch Abomination: More so than anyone else. His body is constantly shifting between every type of monster and new ones and looking at him for too long would drive a demigod insane.

The Juggernaut: It took the combined might of most of the major Olympians battling him for weeks and the last minute arrival of Poseidon and his own army to bring him down. When he first showed up to battle the Olympians in ancient times, every god except Zeus ran at the sight of him.

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